Baguette Scented Stamps and a 30 year old McDonald's burger

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Do you like
stamps? Do you like bagets? What

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if I could combine the two?
Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. The French Postal Service
has released a scratch and sniff stamp.

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Why it'll fill your letter room or
office with the aroma of freshly baked bread

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as it honors the classic baget.
We don't want the scientists working on the

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climate emergency or anything work on this. The baget was recently honored by UNESCO

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with the status of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which is described as a standout element

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in the story of humanity that can't
be pinned down to the words on a

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page, the outcome of a battle, where the bricks making up a monument.

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The French Postal Service says, the
baget the bread of our daily lives,

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the symbol of our gastronomy, the
jewel of our culture. The stamp

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will cost you just under two euros. They're only making six hundred that copies

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set for printing. It depicts a
baguette wrapped in blue and white ribbons.

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The stamp's ink is coated in microcapsules
that burst when you scratch it. That

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releases the scent. A postal printer
explains the difficulty is for us to apply

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the ink without breaking the capsules,
so that the smell could be released by

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the customers rubbing on the stamp.
We're also told begets require specific knowledge and

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techniques. They're baked throughout the day
in small batches, and the outcomes vary

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according to temperature and humidity. They
also generate modes of consumption and social practices

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that differentiate them from other types of
bread, such as daily visits to bakeries

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to purchase the loaves and specific display
racks to match their long shape. I

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know I have a lilt in my
voice, and I'm having fun with the

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story. When I went to France, the bread is amazing. I think

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there were days where all I ate
was bread. I mean that's why I'm

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not the skinniest person you ever met. But if you ever get to France,

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load up on the bread. Those
bread stores are fantastic. A right,

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good news. The folks in Thailand
have figured out what to do with

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these monkeys. You've seen these videos
where like the monkeys come in and just

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like start stealing food and sunglasses.
You've seen this on YouTube, Yes,

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well, a tide town has had
it with these monkeys, and they've launched

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an offensive against the simian readers using
trickery and ripe tropical fruit. Here's the

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plan. Cages. In the cages, we put food. When the monkeys

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show up to eat the fruit,
we trapped them in a cage. The

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cages were placed on the street early
in the week, so the monkeys got

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used to them and found them less
threatening. And there's one town. They're

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thought to be around twenty five hundred
monkeys running around the town. At the

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time of this recording, they had
captured and resettled thirty. A representative from

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the Department of National Parks Wildlife Conservation
says, with the monkey's intelligence, so

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some of them go into the cage
and are caught. The others outside won't

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enter the cage to get the food
because they've seen what happens. There are

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other monkey solutions. One autopart shop
now does its business from behind wire.

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The shop owners said, when there
are a lot of monkeys around, customers

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are afraid of buying goods at the
shop. Only our regulars aren't frightened all

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right, So what happens to the
monkeys? They get health checks. Then

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they're cleaned and sterilized, inked with
tattoos so they can be identified to keep

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records. After that, they're sent
to holding pens outside of the town center

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while looking for a permanent home.
What's unclear to me is where is this

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permanent home. I hope these monkeys
are okay. This story just went sideways

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on me. Let's change gears.
Sarah likes to skateboard worth her three kids.

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All right, that's about as opposite
from the previous stories we can get.

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Sarah says, we're all stuck at
home during the pandemic. I decided

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to buy the kids a skate ramp
for Christmas. I'd never skated in my

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life. I quickly realized the ramp
was a little too big for their skill

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level. But here I was with
this ramp, so I decided to learn.

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I learned to skate right alongside my
kids while also teaching them. However,

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Sarah's an adult and the kids are
kids, and kids tend to be

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fearless, and adults, you know, we get a little scared, I

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hear you. So Sarah gets to
the top of the big ramp and she's

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scared, and her seven year old
was like, come on, mom,

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you can do this. Sarah says. I love the idea of allowing the

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kids to be the teacher, to
see the adults don't know at all,

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could be scared too, So I
one hundred percent let him know how scared

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I was. He was giving me
tips and encouraging me, and it was

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just so cute. Peter was a
big fan of Blockbuster Video. Man,

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remember how great Blockbuster was. It
was such a good date night thing.

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Let's hit the Blockbuster. You didn't
even know what you wanted to rent,

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you know, is the cool new
release there, and you'd wind up with

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stuff. That's how I saw the
first Fast and the Furious movie. I

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just was like, I'll get this, and then I loved it, and

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here we are, what twelve movies
later, I digress. Peter has constructed

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a miniature Blockbuster Video adjacent to his
home. It's a tiny thing, so

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don't think you're going to Peter's house
to rent videos. He recreated the DVD

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library out of an old record cabinet, complete with a light up sign and

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popcorn. He tells Southwest News Service, it seems strange to me that people

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in the younger generations don't know about
DVDs makes me feel old now that many

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people don't even know what Blockbuster was. The finished product is painted in Blockbuster

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blue. It's been covered in stickers
of old movie posters and tricked out with

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lights, and it includes a sign
that says, please remember to rewind.

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Hey, good news. If you've
got a McDonald's burger sitting there since nineteen

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ninety five, it's probably still intact. Casey and Edwards claim they ordered a

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quarter pounder with cheese in nineteen ninety
five from a McDonald's in Adelaide when they

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were teenagers. The burger is spent
over a decade of its thirty years inside

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a stuffy shed. Dean says,
being teenagers, we ordered a truckload of

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food and it was way too much. Started a chain of events where we

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were joking, imagine if we kept
this forever. They decided to hang on

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to the sandwich forever. Thirty years
later, it's remarkably intact, with no

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signs of mold or smell. It's
shrunk a little bit. Dean said.

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Even the rats didn't eat the burger. The rats had actually eaten through the

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plastic bag. Heaps of clothes got
in the box and they left the burger.

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Is this record, Well, that's
in dispute. And twenty twenty,

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Utah's David Whipple claimed he had the
world's oldest burger. He had a burger

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from nineteen ninety nine that looked like
it was fresh off the grill. Now

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listen to this. He had originally
gotten the burger to use it a presentation

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on deterioration, and then he forgot
about it, left it in his coat

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pocket and didn't find it until fourteen
years later. McDonald's though, they're like,

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look, this is totally normal.
I don't know why you think it's

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weird that our food doesn't decay.
Food prepared at home is left to dehydrate

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and could see similar results. Look
closely. The burgers you're seeing are likely

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dried out and dehydrated by no means, the same as the day they were

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purchased. Totally normal and those are
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